Pasadena Chronicle, October 06, 1939

POLLS OPEN MONDAY FOR MINOR PRIMARIES Vol 31 Pasadena junior college, October 6, 1939 No. 4 DR. FRANK H. JONAS DR. JONAS ON FORUM Dr. Frank H. Jonas, member of the department of political science at USC, will open the Evening Forum series Tuesday night in the Sexson auditor¬ ium with a lecture on “Propaganda.” Mr. H. R. Knickerbocker, Interna¬ tional News service correspondent and winner of the 1930 Pulitzer journalistic award, was originally scheduled to speak this Tuesday, but has been de¬ tained in Europe as a result of the re¬ cent European war. Mr. Knickerbocker will, however, speak here in April. Dr. Jonas has made several trips to Europe, staying there once for a period of three years. He spent the greater part of his time on these trips sojourn¬ ing in France, Belgium and Germany, where he studied and observed post¬ war political phenomena. He speaks a number of languages and has studied at the University of Grenoble in France and at the Univer¬ sity of Berlin and the Hochschule fur Poljcik in Germany. He completed his graduate studies in political science at the University of Washington. At pres¬ ent he is teaching courses in the ele¬ ments of political science, politics and propaganda, international organiza¬ tions and problems of modern society. David W. Reidy, head of the ex¬ tended day school, will again have charge of the lecture series. Dr. Claude Buss, professor of inter¬ national relations at USC, will speak a week from Tuesday on “Japan vs. China.” This will be the second lecture on international affairs, a topic to be continued until November 7. STUDENTS HOLD SECOND STAG The second AMS stag this year was held Wednesday night in Tournament park, when several hundred men stu¬ dents gathered for a complete barbe¬ cued dinner, prepared by Tony Romero and his staff. Both students and faculty partici¬ pated in various games and sports be¬ fore the dinner. In the evening, Robert Fisher, mem¬ ber of the Magicians’ Guild, enter¬ tained students with a short show. Fol¬ lowing Mr. Fisher, William Rentz- mann, leading javelin thrower from Denmark who is now working on the international team for Moral Re- Arma¬ ment, addressed students. Teachers' meet, convocation cause short classes Monday Half hour classes will prevail throughout the entire day next Mon¬ day. The day’s schedule will be cut in half to allow for convocation in the morning, and a teachers institute ses¬ sion at 2:15 p.m. The revised schedule follows. Eight o’clock class . 8:00 — 8:30 Convocation . 8:37 — 9:27 Nine o’clock class . 9:34 — 10:04 Ten o’clock class . 10:11 — 10:41 Eleven o’clock class . 10:48 — 11:18 Twelve o’clock class . 11:25 — 11:55 One o’clock class . 12:02 — 12:32 Two o’clock class . 12:39 — 1:09 Three o’clock class . 1:16 — 1:46 .. .The four and five o’clock classes will not meet. African explorer at senior- junior-frosh battle at other Speaker present at CZECH PATRIOT Livingstone burial will ADDRESS Julian B. Arnold, sole survivor of the second Stanley expedition to Africa, will be the speaker for the combined senior-sophomore class meeting to be held during the assembly period in the east and west campus auditoriums today. The program is under the direction of Vince Erickson and Norman Ben¬ nett, senior and sophomore class presidents. Before Mr. Arnold speaks, Erickson will introduce candidates for minor class offices. PLANS EXPEDITION Mr. Arnold was present at the fun¬ eral ceremony and buriaj of David Livingstone in Westminster Abbey, London. His father, Sir Edwin Arn¬ old, noted English author and states¬ man, commissioned Henry M. Stanley to finish Livingstone’s work in Africa, and Julian, then but little more than a boy, planned and mapped this sec¬ ond expedition which discovered the source of the Congo river. He was an intimate friend of Stan¬ ley’s for more than 20 years, and on the trip he was Stanley’s most trusted aide. Mr. Arnold introduced Mr. Stan¬ ley to the girl he married. Mr. Arnold was also a member of the George Smith expedition which ex¬ cavated important ancient ruins in Assyria, and he later was actively in¬ terested in explorations in Egypt. PJC will have night at Civic Led by Howard Clapp, ASB presi¬ dent, eleven jaysee couples will be guests of the Pasadena Civic Dance association at “junior college night” in the Civic auditorium tomorrow at 8:30 John Scott Trotter and his Kraft Music Hall orchestra will furnish the evening’s dancing entertainment. Jay¬ see dance fans will remember Trotter from his personal appearance before east and west campus audiences for an hour of melodic swing with Skin- nay Ennis and his band, last Dec. 16. Those being honored as patrons to¬ morrow night are Howard Clapp, Peter Ducker, Mabel Prouty, Bill O’Donnell, Barbara Place, Johnnie Walker and Dee Dee Cope. Faculty members be¬ ing honored are Mr. and Mrs. Allison R. Baldwin, Mr. and Mrs. Stanton Hill, Mr. and Mrs. Edward Cornelison, and Mr. and Mrs. Conrad D. Swanson. Campus music hour Room 200C Wednesday 12:30, Thursday 11:20 and 12:20 MUSICAL RHAPSODIES Rumanian Rhapsody Enesco Rhapsody in Blue Gershwin Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2 Liszt West Campus Music Hour Wednesdays at 12:20. Auditorium Organ recital with requests played. Mrs. Frances Smith at the console. RESTRICTIVE CLUB PJC STUDENTS Vlastimil Kybal, well-known Czech scientist, lecturer and diplomat, will speak to PJC students at convocation next Monday. He will deliver two addresses, a sep¬ arate one for each campus. His subject for the east campus will be “Moral forces of the Czech nation,” while on the west campus, he will talk on “Dif¬ ferences in the Czech nation since European domination.” He is expected to delve into the reactions of the Czech people to European domination, and the possibilities of the rise of his fath¬ erland to a democratic state once again. ACE ENVOY Born in 1880, Dr. Kybal was edu¬ cated at the universities of Prague and Paris. Entering the diplomatic serv¬ ice for his country, he soon became one of its ace envoys in the capitals of Europe and South America. His diplomatic career, however, has not kept him from achieving distinction as one of Czech-land’s most renowned educators and historical authorities. Kybal is recognized as Czechoslo¬ vakia’s leading spokesman on the his¬ tory of the Renaissance and Reforma¬ tion, and he is the author of several books on these subjects. His contribu¬ tions in letters and sciences have re¬ sulted in his election to the Czecho¬ slovakia Academy of Science. IN U. S. SINCE MARCH Dr. Kybal has been in America since March of this year, having been re¬ leased from his position as Czech am¬ bassador to Mexico. Students with 9 o’clock classes in language, life science, physical educa¬ tion, physical science, mathematics, so¬ cial science or study hall will attend. Players guild holds membership tryouts In anticipation of a banner year, members of Players’ Guild, student dramatic society, held their member¬ ship tryouts September 27. From thirty applicants who measure up to the highest standards demanded by the Players’ Guild, sixteen who were deemed most outstanding were chosen for membership by the judges. These pledges are Marian Spratt, Bernice Mortenson, Evelyn Prosser, Marylin Walker, Maline Rogers, Esther Covert, Betty Litz, Charlotte Martin, Jack Cook, Lamont Johnson, Vernon Quick, Bob Fischer, Jerry Jones, Har¬ old Britton, Bill Harvey and Don Bern¬ stein. These students will be informally initiated at the home of J. C. England, vice-president of the Guild, Saturday, October 7, and formally initiated the following Saturday. BIDS ISSUED soph meet; assembly Monday's candidates will be introduced A frosh- junior tug of war and football game played with 50- pound footballs will highlight their assembly on the bleachers at the junior college today. Candidates running in Monday’s pri¬ mary elections will be introduced, and the nominees for the freshman and junior presidency will make two-min¬ ute speeches. TUG OF WAR Under the direction of Pat Kennedy, acting junior president, the most stal¬ wart members of the two classes will divide into teams, for the tug of war. Between the teams will be a hose wielded by the worthy Kennedy. The losing team will be dragged, slowly, through the water. The football game, following the tug of war, will be played with 50-pound gunny sacks filled with sawdust. Ac¬ cording to President Kennedy, the players will be allowed iron pipes, not over a foot in length, to defend them¬ selves with in the scrimmage. How¬ ever, this game will last only ten min¬ utes. An eight-man relay with represent¬ atives of the two classes will finish the combined meeting. Dixon tells Athenia story Miss Dorothy Dixon, English teach¬ er, found it hard to teach her class their mother tongue while they pre¬ ferred to hear her adventures of being torpedoed on the high seas by a Ger¬ man U-boat. Returning Monday, Oct. 2, Miss Dixon was among those aboard the ill-fated Athenia when it was de¬ stroyed on the night of Sept. 3. “I was finishing my dinner about 7:45 that Sunday,” she said, “when I heard a deafening roar and I was thrown to the floor as the ship gave a violent lurch. In the midst of ter¬ rible confusion with screaming women and shouting men, I tried to make my way to my cabin two decks above. When I came on the deck, the air was filled with acrid smoke from the still visible submarine, which was trying to destroy our wireless with shell fire. SET ADRIFT “We were loaded into lifeboats and set adrift within a half hour after the torpedoing. We drifted in mountainous seas from 8:15 until 5:30 the next morning, when the Electra came along¬ side. We managed to hold our boat against the destroyer’s side until some sailors jumped aboard to take charge. They literally threw us onto the de¬ stroyer, two or three each time as we rose to deck level on the surging seas. “The men in charge on the Athenia, and also on the Electra, displayed amazing courage, and their presence of mind was the only thing that pre¬ vented mob hysteria. “We were wrapped in blankets and fed hot chocolate as we sped for Scot¬ land. We saw the submarine again twice and started zig-zagging at high speed. Tuesday we learned that the Fame had finally sunk it. THRILLING RESCUE “The most thrilling rescue was 15 minutes before the Athenia finally sank. A woman who had been in¬ jured Sunday morning had been left in the hospital ward of the ship. Cap¬ tain Ross called for volunteers to go back to see if she were still alive. Two men found her out of her head from fear. She had lain there helpless all through that tragic night. “We were in Glasgow for two weeks where they treated us marvelously, and we had a fine time. “On the Orizaba coming home, we had two submarine scares, and a short circuit that set off the alarms nearly created a panic. “I wouldn’t take anything for the ex¬ perience I’ve had, but I am quite satis¬ fied with that one.” FRIDAY, OCTOBER THIRTEENTH Long-awaited bids to the men’s and women’s restrictive clubs will be issued next Friday, October 13, after the final rush affair and the compulsory period of silence. Bids to be issued to prospective pledges must be in the offices of the east and west campus deans on Wednesday. Those rushees who are still “eligible” for restrictive clubs will then receive post cards asking them to come to one of the dean’s offices at 3 p. m. on Friday. Upon arriving at the dean’s office, the prospective members will be given three choices of the clubs they would like to join. If, upon asking for their favor¬ ite, they find they have been blackballed, they may ask for their second choice. If there is no bid issued from that club, they get their bid from the third club. On the bid, the new pledges will find an invitation to join the club, the tele¬ phone number they are to call to announce their acceptance, and the address and date of the acceptance dinner, customarily held the night of acceptance. Each club is gathered at the home of one of the members where the new pledges are to call in their acceptance. When the period of rejoicing for both members and pledges is over, it is usually time for the acceptance dinner. After the dinner, it is traditional for each club with its new members to go to the foot¬ ball game. First election of school year scheduled PJC will go to the polls next Mon¬ day, Oct. 9, in the first primary elec¬ tion this semester. Hoping to win a place on the finals ballot on Friday, Oct. 13, 101 hopeful candidates for the various class offices, and AWS repre¬ sentatives anxiously await your ver¬ dict. Students who have not completed their registration are urged to do so at once if they hope to vote, as regis¬ tration cards must be presented at the polls. “Let’s have each and every one of the student body show their interest in our junior college by stepping up to one of the polls and voting for his favorite candidate,” Harlan Erickson, chief justice, requested. “Only by Both student body ticket books and identification cards are necessary for casting a vote in the election. Students forgetting either one are just out of luck. everybody’s co-operation can we hope to realize a bigger and better elec¬ tion.” The minor class officers and AWS representatives are duplicated on each campus’ ballot. Those offices for which there are no candidates will be filled by appointment. The only names which will appear on both the east and west campus ballot will be candidates for junior and freshman class presidents. The list of candidates follows: FRESHMEN President: James Calkins, William Carnahan, Arthur Hartwell, Dale Hies- tand, Katherine Hubbard, Marjorie Menning, John O’Grady, Albert Page. Vice-President: Edward Davis, Betty Devine, Bob Foes, Alison Graham, Annette Kelsey, Patsy Leefeldt, Vir¬ ginia Marston, Marjorie May bury, Bill Morzov, Hugh Penton, Jack (Ernest) Porter, George Walker, Don Henley. Secretary: Phyllis Anderson, Dor¬ othy Brainerd, Patricia Cope, Bob Hen¬ drickson, Bette Jones, Helen Macdon¬ ald, Lucille Nutt, Susanne Sanders, Virginia Winston. Treasurer: Alice Chisholm, Helen Marie Chisholm, Bob Eastman, Leslie War poll results show PJC wants to keep America at peace Forty-two hundred fifty-nine PJC students showed their interest in world affairs last Wednesday by participat¬ ing in the UCLA National College poll, sponsored at this school by the Chron¬ icle. (Complete results of balloting on page two.) Questions on world affairs revealed that PJC students are anxious to keep this country out of war — the women a bit more so than the men. The women voted down neutrality act amendment with 981 noes to 817 yeas, while men supported it with 1599 yeas to 817 noes, in a question entitled: “Under present conditions, should the United States sell munitions on a cash basis to any belligerent nations who can call for the items in their own ships?” DON’T WANT TO FIGHT On the whole, women seemed less inclined to want to fight, 350 of them out of more than 1700 refusing to do their part even if the United States proper were attacked. Only 22 of more than 2400 men voted no on that ques¬ tion. United States entry into the war under present conditions was heavily booed, only 68 men and 10 women favoring it. Results of the poll throughout the nation will be compared with Pasadena figures in the Chronicle as soon as na¬ tional tabulations are received — prob¬ ably in about three or four weeks. DR. HARBESON AT MEET Dr. John W. Harbeson, principal left here Thursday to attend the annual California junior college commiittee meeting in Del Monte. He will return Saturday. The committee will study current junior college problems through panel discussions. The all day session will also include reports from various members.